There appears to be a lot of threads chronicling the idiocy of other people in the world of gaming.
I want to know what stupid things you've done personally.

My latest one- I bought Okage Shadow King today for PS2, and was ridiculously happy. I've been looking for it for ages, and just now found it. When I got home I remembered something important- I have no PS2.

Also, I have a habit of changing the controls to something more comfortable to me, forgetting as SOON as I exit the menu, and freaking out that the game isn't playing right.

I accidentally committed suicide by shooting myself in the head though one of the portals in Prey.

I mailed my copy of Oblivion to Netflix. Not even Gamefly, mind you....but Netflix.

I rented Bullet Witch and played through the first mission...

I have forever tarnished my Xbox Live account with that crappy game...

I bought Neverwinter Nights 2 in pre-order.

I wasted a lot of money I could spend on better games.

xitel:
I bought the same game three times...

How do you do that? I'm curious. Did two break or do you have really bad memory?

I bought a few games I've only played once or twice. My favorite is playing a new game but being still in the state of mind of playing the previous game and getting myself killed because of it.

I went to play a .. fps game i forget which but i remember there was ledge i could not reach, just played TF2 Recently i thought huh... i have a rocket launcher i'll just Rocket Jump! BOOM i died.

I broke the sticker in my 360 voiding the warranty.

Pseudonym2:
I accidentally committed suicide by shooting myself in the head though one of the portals in Prey.

I accidentally a video game. I accidentally the whole thing.

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

I did a lot of facepalming reading through those...

Anyway, another one I did was let a friend borrow my mint PC copy of Final Fantasy VIII. Not only is it usually $50-$80, but it was a very sentimental gift to me. Haven't seen the bastard, or my game, since. >_>;;

i stacked 2 cars on one another in spiderman 3 only to have them fall on me and crush me after id taking like a zillion photos :P

TheBlueRabbit:
I mailed my copy of Oblivion to Netflix. Not even Gamefly, mind you....but Netflix.

Did you get the copy of Oblivion back?

Me and my friend were taking turns trying to beat some of the later Insurance Fraud missions in Saints Row 2. I got in a helicopter flew over the area to start my time and ejected. Instead of getting the 30,000+ dollars I should have the fall killed me. How on God's green Earth do you die during Insurance fraud?!?!?!

I've also run into a parked car on more than one occasion in real life...

A while ago, I was getting ice cream with a friend, but hitting on the cute chinese girl serving the stuff. Her cultural pride was no match for my charm and her icy facade shattered and showed me a brief smile.

Cut to far too long later and the friend that was there that day let slip that said chinese icecream wench had given me her number, via napkin, which I hadn't noticed and had thrown away without realising.

Of course, why said friend didn't tell me this valuable information... THE MOMENT I THREW THE FUCKING THING AWAY... is beyond me. But as they say in the parisian desert, you shiv and burn.

Word to the wise, kiddies, ice cream wenches leave their numbers on napkins. Apparently sales wenches leave it on dockets.

Dommyboy:

TheBlueRabbit:
I mailed my copy of Oblivion to Netflix. Not even Gamefly, mind you....but Netflix.

Did you get the copy of Oblivion back?

Yeah. Took a while and a few phone calls that probably could've landed me in the "nightmare customer" thread, but I got it back. And it wasn't even scratched!

My stories are so tame compared to some of these x3 I hope gameplay-idiocy counts here, otherwise I'ma probably end up derailing the thread. *shifty eyes*

Funny thing that got the "I'm so stupid" reaction out of myself, was playing Left4Dead, finali of no mercy, we were almost to the roof when a tank attacked... and threw himself down the bottomless pit. We had a nice long moment of "did the fall kill him? I still hear the music... somebody throw a molatov" and as luck would have it, I had a molatov!

So I got up next to the railing at the side of the pit, yelled "fire in the hole!" and broke the bottle ON the railing. I saw fire, screamed in surprise and jumped back. The railing was only on fire enough for me to have burned myself, and my whole team just laughed and laughed. Ha ha, ouch my pride. ^.^;

I bought Left 4 Dead. Now I don't have any free time. Yay...
-.-

Bought Icewind Dale a couple o' years back.

Played it once. waded my way though the lake of shit that was the game (IMO). Almost finished it theeeen I accidentally killed a main quest giver (Damn area of effect Spells!). Rather than play through the whole shitty game AGAIN. I uninstalled and never touched it again.

It made a nice paperweight for a while. Until I bought my PSP. Now it is just a Decoration.

I just thought of something. Why the fuck haven't I sold it yet?

I bought Far Cry 2.....i couldnt get a refund i had to trade in that and another ps3 game to buy a preowned version of prince of persia(2008) beat it 2 days later and now the game just pisses me off....
i got owned bad

xitel:

Zallest:

xitel:
I bought the same game three times...

How do you do that? I'm curious. Did two break or do you have really bad memory?

I bought a few games I've only played once or twice. My favorite is playing a new game but being still in the state of mind of playing the previous game and getting myself killed because of it.

I went to play a .. fps game i forget which but i remember there was ledge i could not reach, just played TF2 Recently i thought huh... i have a rocket launcher i'll just Rocket Jump! BOOM i died.

I went to the store, bought it, went again, saw it on sale, thought I didn't have it, bought it again, went back later, saw it in a bargain bin, again thought I didn't have it, and bought it a third time.

Just out of curiosity, what was the game?

San Andreas, 100%... deleated the save accidently cause I tried deleating another game I don't play. Needless to say I was pissed. T_T

acer840:
San Andreas, 100%... deleated the save accidently cause I tried deleating another game I don't play. Needless to say I was pissed. T_T

ah yes i did that with my stuntman one(that was one hard game mind you the 1st one) and i was at like 98% and i was making space on my memory card and accidently deleted it....i was more than pissed
also never let retarded friends on your ps3s save game folder....fucking bastard

I bought Iron man, Destroy All Humans POTF, Incredible Hulk and Golden Axe Beast Rider. And I thought all of them were going to be good.

xitel:

Lord Krunk:

xitel:

Zallest:

xitel:
I bought the same game three times...

How do you do that? I'm curious. Did two break or do you have really bad memory?

I bought a few games I've only played once or twice. My favorite is playing a new game but being still in the state of mind of playing the previous game and getting myself killed because of it.

I went to play a .. fps game i forget which but i remember there was ledge i could not reach, just played TF2 Recently i thought huh... i have a rocket launcher i'll just Rocket Jump! BOOM i died.

I went to the store, bought it, went again, saw it on sale, thought I didn't have it, bought it again, went back later, saw it in a bargain bin, again thought I didn't have it, and bought it a third time.

Just out of curiosity, what was the game?

I believe Rainbow Six Vegas, but I'm not entirely sure.

You should go buy a copy of it, just in case.

I played Maplestory. For three years.

I've bought a few VC and Wiiware games that made me regret wasting my money and points

VoleurdeThym:
I did a lot of facepalming reading through those...

Anyway, another one I did was let a friend borrow my mint PC copy of Final Fantasy VIII. Not only is it usually $50-$80, but it was a very sentimental gift to me. Haven't seen the bastard, or my game, since. >_>;;

Well, here at least I can sympathize. The same thing happened to my copy of Enter The Matrix.
(Granted, it was Enter The Matrix, so no big loss. ;))

(Hmm, FF8 PC is worth $50-$80 now? <Casts covetous eyes to his copy sitting on the shelf.> Doing a little search on Amazon it looks like the smart people are just buying the PS "greatest hits" version which is only $20 and should be playable on any version of the Playstation.)

Buying the GTAIV special edition.

Yuriatayde:

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Once I actually spawned as the Tank on the roof (Versus mode) and the first thing I see is a wall.

So what do I do? I back up to get my bearings.

Fell right off the building.

Dead 5 seconds after spawn. Worst use of Tank on the versus team ever.